Show SKULL VALLEY LEPROSY county physician dials of e in ft a to the tri tribune bv lie comments comment as follows on the recent at tempted skull valley leprosy soar car I 1 being one of the committee appointed toy by the county cammi commissioners boners to invest acate t 0 the leprosy cases at joesph joceph or the caks ranch in skull valley I 1 submit took to you yon the follow following ilig facts I 1 on jane 21 the committee consisting of cf S W woolley bishop duff cluff and myself examined each individual of the colony and found three pronoun pronounced cAd cases of leprosy viz that of let J W a man of about 50 years of age the disease has attacked his eyes tho the first joints of the third and little fin tar sa ot of the right hand are gone and the boond second finger ot of the right hand is badly and 2nd bessie peters a girl in her ber year vear this la in the most serious in my opinion the disease has attacked her heir eyes slightly she shows shown US the oft dueease a very little on her face and add hee hainds bands and the right lower limb are fie eveston eat of moat of the thi trouble there being wo large sores on bottom of right footett foot the right log leg is in badly affected there being no open sores but nodules forming on the surface her angers angera are much drawn so that she cannot straighten them ana and there are several cracks and ulcers on them ard 3rd hannah magog a woman of about 45 years of age she is only affected in the face and not badly affected i 1 b e she shows the disease very little we have a report to submit to the county commissioners on the dinst as they meet at that date dale we also submit a plan of quarantine and I 1 think immediate action will be taken to quarantine those afflicted we consider the report published in I 1 the herald june as sensational and overdrawn had mr jackson gone to bishop gluff duff and let his mission be known he would have seen more and got more reliable information as the bishop does not try to conceal the fact of leprosy being in the settlement I 1 had bad no trouble le ne oaring curing all the data daa 1 I wished lucy mahoe was examined and no signs of leprosy discovered a few years ago a wagon ran over her chest and she was quite sore from the effects for some time where the writer got his information regarding this girl we do not know as an rr mr matthews said he did not give it to lurn him J K X N malice mahoe was examined and no signs of leprosy found the three lepers above described will be quarantined as soon as it to is possible to erect a suitable suii able hospital for this thin purpose purse parse 0 se until that time they are instructed FO to ke keep apart t f from r om those not affected and this 7 a w will arr I 1 b be e enforced as a much as possible I 1 I 1 have no doubt but that there will be more oases cause in the future an examination of each individual should be made at different times and if any one is found with the disease that one should be taken to the hospital it to is my duty to attend to this matter and any one who has reasons to believe that there is a person afflicted with the disease should notify me and I 1 will investigate at once F M davis M D TOOELE CITY june 24 1896 |